816 CXLVIII. oROHiDEjE. '(J. D. Hooker.) \Ac.antlicphippium 



Pseudobulbs stout, narrow, short or lengthening into a leafy stem 4-14 in. 

 high. Leaves 6-10 in., elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate. Scape 2-0 in., very stout, 

 sheathed ; flowers 1| in. long, fleshy, like those of A. bicolor. Liudley unites 

 Griffith's ringijiorum with sylheiense, but it may be another species, having white 

 flowers. 



3. A. striatum, Lindl. in Sot. Reg. 1838, Misc. 45 ; flowers white 

 streaked with red, mentum spur-like, side lobes of lip very broad falcate 

 obtuse, midlobe contracted acute scarlet, lip with a single median crested 

 ridge and thickened lateral nerves. Walp. Ann. vi. 460. 



NEPAL (Hort. Kew). SIKKIM, Griffith's Collectors (Kew Distrib. 5289) and Ic. 

 in Herb. Calcutt. 



Very near A. sylhetense, but the flowers are much shorter, and the side lobes of 

 lip very different. 



i. PHAJUS, Lour. 



Terrestrial or epiphytic large stout herbs. Leaves plaited. Scape lateral 

 on the pseudobulb, or axillary or terminal ; flowers large, handsome, 

 racemed. Sepals and petals subequal, spreading or suberect. Lip adnate 

 to the base of and embracing the column, erect, base gibbous or spurred, 

 midlobe various. Column long, stout ; foot ; anther incompletely 

 4-celled ; pollinia 8, attached by fours to a large granular viscus. Species 

 about 14, tropics of the Old World. 



I am not sure that the following arrangement according to the position of the 

 scape, being derived from often imperfect dried specimens, will hold good. 



* Scape from the side of the pseudobulb, tall, stout. 



1. P. Wallichii, Lindl. in Wall. PL As. Ear. ii. 46, 1. 158 ; Gen. fy Sp. 

 Orchid. 126 ; leaves 1-2 ft. elliptic-lanceolate acuminate, scape very tall, 

 sepals and petals spreading lanceolate acuminate, spur slender short or long, 

 lip with a tubular limb and ovate-lanceolate acute or acuminate sometimes 

 truncate crisped midlobe. Pasct. May. vi. t. 193; Weil p. Ann. vi. 459. 

 PP. Blumei, 'Lindl. Gen. fy Sp. Orchid. 127; Blume Orchid. Art-hip. Ltd. 

 2, t. 1; DeVriese Illust. t. 8. P. bicolor, Lindl. I. c. 128 ; Serf. Orchid. 

 t. 25 ; Sot. Reg. 1839, Misc. 61 ; Sot. Mag. t, 4078 ; Wight Ic. 1. 1659-60 ; 

 Thwaites Enum. 300; Blume Mus. Bot. ii. 178 ; Walp. Ann. 1. c. 458. P. 

 grandifolius. Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 3747 (not of Loureiro). Limodorum 

 Tankervillias, Eoxb. Fl. 2nd. iii. 466 (not of Alton). 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA; in tropical valleys, J.D. H. ASSAM and SYLHET, Wallich, 

 &c. UPPER BDRMA, Griffith. TENASSERIM, Parish. CEYLON, alt. 2-4000 ft. 

 DISTRIB. Malay Islands ? 



Pseudobulbs 1-li in. diam., conical, sheathed by the leaf-bases. Leaves 2.^-8 in. 

 broad, sometimes spotted ; petiole 6-10 in. Scape 2-4 ft., sometimes thicker than 

 the thumb ; bracts -2 in., spathaceous, caducous ; pedicel 1 in. ; flowers 4-5 in. diam. ; 

 sepals and petals white greenish or rosy without, within yellow-brown with a golden 

 margin, rarely white or concolorous ; tube of lip pink or red with a yellow base, 

 midlobe orange, red, or white and pink; spur ;[-^ in. long. Capsule 2-2 i- in. 

 Possibly a form of the 1 Chinese P. graridifolius, Lour. 1 know of no character 

 whereby to distinguish P. Blumei. 



2. P. veratrifolius, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 3746; Gen, $ /S>. O/r///V. 

 127 ; scape shorter than the leating stem, flowers crowded, bracts cymbt- 

 form lanceolate, sepals and petals dirty-white spreading and recurved 

 lanceolate acute, spur narrowly conical, lip short broad yellow, side lobes 

 rounded and short retuee midlobe crenulate. 



